US76535A

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Publication number: US76535A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 1885-04-07

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Letters Patent No. 76,535, lated April 7, 1868.

IMPROVVEDAPPARATUS IOR GENERATING GAS.-

TO AILL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. SLOAN, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie,'und State of New York, have invented a new and improved Portable Gas-Generating Apparatus; and Ido hereby declare that the following is u. full, clear, and exact descriptionof the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to th annexed drawings, making a part of this speeiication, in which- The invention is represented by a longitudinal vertical section..

This invention consists, first, in providing within the carburetting-chamber u. oatingfvessel having a felt bottom,for the purposes hereinafterl shown, and, secondly, in heating steam or air that hasbeen carburetted, and thereby fixing it as a gas.' Y l In the drawings, A represents the catrburetting-chanher supplied with a current of steam or atmospheric nir through a pipe, B, the part of which outside ofthe chamher'A may be made of exible or inflexible hose or gas-tube, and the portion of which, B', inside of the chamber, is to be constructed of fiexiblc tubing.

I C represents the curburctting-iuid or substance used in the chamber A. `D isvahollow vessel or Hout resting on the liquid, C, and filled nt'the top with air'or steam' from the pipevB. Its bot-torn, D, consists of a piece'of felt stretched tightly acrossand confined to the lower 'edgcs of the sido walls.- E is a pipe leading from the upper part of lthe chamber A to a hollow drum or vessel, F, sit-uatedover or near a fire-chamber, I, of a heater, H.' The steam or air, having heen forced through pipe B into vessel D, and escaping through every part of its felt bottom Dinto the. carburettiiig-luid, and thence rising in bubbles to the upper portion of' -the chamber A, passes over through pipe E to drum F, where it is heated by moans of a fire burning in fire-chamber I of the heater. Having thus been heated and partially fixed, the gas-passes from drum F through pipe Ki into th'o rst of a series of upright cylinders L L"L.Ll arranged in a vertical position around the lire-pot I. Entering'at thc top of one or" these cylindersit passes down through it, and escapes at its bottom through a. short pipe'or passage, l, into the bottoni of the 'adjoining cylinder L', throughwhich it rises, escaping in turn through the'pnssage Zinto the-top of the next adjoining cylinder L, then-ce downfand into the .next, 82e., Ste., passing in this manner nround the tire-pot, and finally escaping from the apparatus at the bottom 'or top of the cylinder L, the last ot' the series, when, zii'ter being passed through'ia cooling-apparatus, it is ready for use.

The object in passing-thc gas through the cylinders around the fire-'pot is to heult it to a higher degree than .it `was when it escaped from the drum F. The arrangement of the cylinders, fire-pot, and drum F, as shown in the drawings, utilizes the heat of the heater to the highest degree. From the mom-cnt ofl entering thchcater till it nally escapes from it, through all its long passage, the gas is' constantly exposed to a large heated surface, which, in the course of its passage, reaches every part ofit, and thoroughly heats it, changing or destroying particles of foreign matter-in it, and giving the whole the character' of a permanentlydixed illuminating-gas.-

Insteud of felt, aiiy thick, porous cloth, which will operate inan equivalent manner, may be employed for the' bottom of float D. And instead of arranging the retorts or cylinders L L1 L2, 86u., vertically in a circle around the grate, as shown, they muy be arranged horizontally, forming an arch over the tire, if preferred, any other position that will enable the heat to act upon them all to the greatest advantage.

Having thus described my invention', what I 'claim as nexrpand desire to Secure by Letters Patent, is- YJ'he combination of the carbwetting-apparatus A B D, when constructed and operating ns described, with the ire-chamber I, cylindrical retorts L'L L2, `dtc.,iand pipe E, when'the parts lust mentioned are arranged in the manner set forth, the whole operating together.substantially as and for the purpose specified.

* WM. M. sLoAN.

Witnesses:

D. A. Hover, GEO. BURT.